Master Criminal Steals $11,000 From Walmart Over The Phone

Time was, a burglar needed a gun or a knife to hold up a store. But kids today, they got all sorts of new-fangled ways of pulling heists, like the Walmart in Ohio that is now short over $11,000 because of a phone call.

According to police in Columbus, OH, someone called up a local Walmart around 1 a.m. on Sunday morning and “tricked a clerk” into activating money cards over the phone and giving the suspect the activation numbers.

When all was said and done, the criminal had helped themselves to $11,054.60 in money cards.

I am guessing they’re talking about the Walmart MoneyCard, which is a pre-paid, reloadable Visa card. No bank account required, and the cards can be used anywhere. Hopefully Walmart can just de-activate the bad cards… unless they’ve already been used.

You can, they are activated by putting the is numbers in the system, those numbers are on the barcode, every system let’s you type in the numbers when the barcode scanner isn’t working, you just have to walk the employee through it.